PEN SA members Masande Ntshanga and ZP Dala have been longlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for The Reactive and What About Meera respectively. The Etisalat Prize is awarded annually to a work of first fiction of over...
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Swaziland journalist and editor Bheki Makhubu was in South Africa this week to deliver the Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture at Wits University. Bheki has been a journalist for 27 years and was jailed in March 2014 on charges of contempt...
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‘There are many suns,’ he said. ‘Each day has its own. Some are small, some are big. I’m named after the small ones.’ It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – ‘Little Suns’ – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi...
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Between 2009 and 2012, the Gordon Institute for the Performing and Creative Arts in Cape Town held the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series which became a celebrated part of Cape Town’s cultural landscape, demonstrating current intellectual and creative thinking...
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PEN SA member Sarah Lotz has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the Best Horror category for her novel, Day Four. The award winners are chosen by readers and you can vote for Sarah in the semifinals until...
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